World Fantasy Award

She got the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.

Let's see, what else? World Fantasy Awards, Norman

Mailer Prize.

Great.

Best of Year anthologies.

In addition to becoming the first Chilean Nebula finalist in 2024, Cornell has been a finalist for the Aurora and World Fantasy Awards and in 2022 won Canada's Short Works Prize.

When not writing, she can found herself...

Lego bills, yes, intricate Lego bills, no less, and drinking a ridiculous quantity of tea, sometimes both.

won it won the 2006 award in 2007 yes that's how that works

and it also won the international horror guild award And it was nominated for, I think, the World Fantasy Award.

So people really like this book.

And they

Three nights later, he won the Hugo Award for that story.

That story resulted in one of his three, that's right, three World Fantasy Award nominations, including one for Uncertain Sons as well, which won a Nebula Award earlier this year, as well as for his short story collection, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories.

Thomas ended up winning a World Fantasy Award for that last collection, and I wish I could have been there to see it.

But unfortunately, my time and money can only go so far, and ubiquity is not my superpower.

And now that the UK National Convention Easter Con has been added to my rotation, something, sadly, had to give.

Her debut novel, Inkblood's Sister Scribe, was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Good Morning America book club pick, and a New York Times notable book, and has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Her short fiction has been honored with an NEA Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, and an O. Henry Prize, and has been published in places such as American Short Fiction, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Uncanny.

She's an enthusiastic graduate of the Clarion West class of 2017 and teaches at Macalester College.

You want some credits? Hi, I'm Will.

For one thing, I wasn't aware that the BBC were involved.

I thought it was an AMC production, but, you know, what do I know? Anyway, this book was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2008, and...

Of course, Simmons has a long list of acclaimed science fiction and fantasy works, including the Hyperion Cantus and Song of Kali.

Now, Simmons is keen on his literary references, and I note that The Terror is absent from that part of the Wikipedia page that lists his literary references.

Plus she was on this year's Hugo Awards ballot for a novelette, Rapport, Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy.

She's also won two Nebula Awards and a Dragon Award, and has been a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Ignite Award, the World Fantasy Award, and others.

And it should never be forgotten she was first a fan.

She was even chair of Aggie Con 17 during her college days, which you'll hear us talk about in the conversation to come.

The first is Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand.

In case you missed it, I dedicated a Looking Back at Genre History segment to the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, Mythopoeic Award, Otherwise Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Shirley Jackson Award winner, Elizabeth Hand, on episode 728.

I've had the good fortune of teaching several of Elizabeth Hand's works in different classes of mine.

Go read Waking the Moon.